Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...basic concept of human rights has undergone an enormous change in the last 50 years from being dismissed as a utopian ideal, to a universal acknowledgement that those rights should be fact," said Graham T. Allison '62, Dillon professor of government at the Kennedy School of Government...
Speaking at the Institute of Politics last night, six panelists explored the varied challenges facing human rights activists and questioned when and to what extent Western nations should intervene to prevent human rights violations around the world...
...have to add the footnote of genocide to Allison's optimistic proposition," said Samantha Power, executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. "With Sierra Leone and Kosovo, we have a testament to the limits of progress and the bounds of state behavior...
...Africa's post-independence history bristles with such tremendous human rights violations that it is easy to forget its long record of heroic struggle for those rights," said Kwesi Botchwey, director of Africa research and programs...
Botchwey said Westerners who criticize Africa's lack of progress on human rights do not understand that these violations are the result of to extreme poverty...